Dominic Cooper has sealed the deal to play the lead in AMC's upcoming drama pilot 'Preacher.'
Based on the 1990s cult comic by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the show centers on Jesse Custer (Cooper), a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says, Deadline.com reported.
Ruth Negga will play his former girlfriend, Tulip, while Joseph Gilgun plays an Irish vampire named Cassidy, with whom Cooper's character teams up on a journey to literally find God.
The project by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Sony TV and AMC Studios, also stars Lucy Griffiths as Emily and Ian Colletti as Eugene Root, aka Arseface.